Re: UUASC OC ??

[Ralf UUASC]

In related news 

ssh: connect to host lilax.net port 22: Connection timed out

LiLAX hasn't met for a couple of years, now the website is gone. However http://lalugs.org/ remains online.

I handed the passwords of LiLAX to the new, rather unwilling trustees, after I had left town. I can say that in the last years it was more my habit of calling someone up and asking them to speak on a Saturday about some topic that interested me and headhunters who still keep looking for trained Linux SAs, yet where do newbies learn their craft?  Do universities finally embrace Linux vs Windows or OS X? These days if your interested in Linux, just start playing with it, all you need is probably online somewhere and you can google it. Most I guess just get an internship somewhere and start learning with a mentor in at work.

I do admire how simple and easy the http://www.sfvlug.org/ did meetings, no updates to the web page, there is an IRC channel and people somehow know to show up to Dennys, not that I know that they are still meeting, since I haven't been down there in 2 years, however I might mention that I already have a plane ticket for SCALE next year, needed to spend my voucher so I hope to see you all again. I keep thinking of learning node.js, JS and setting up the Beaglebone at 4W with no moving parts, it would make a great server for any usergroup on a home DSL line. That said, I also setup a Page in g+

I should thank all the speakers, John, Charles, LJ, Ron, Dallas, Hugo, Chris and the VPScoop which for many years reliably hosted the lilax.net site. I used to enjoy the group more when Ismet and Al where leading it, was so much less work for me and the attendance and enthusiasm for Linux was greater than as it was much harder to install.  In the final years of LiLAX most were running OS X as famously Miguel de Icaza wrote that he was also now using the Mac and off the GNOME project.  I am writing this on W7 :( Not my choice, but if I were to change this to Linux, I might have issues with getting my Exchange hosted email or trying to keep up with Open Office peculiarities on how it displays things, however it would be nice to work for someone like Google where you only get a choice of OS X or Linux and Chrome runs on all and that is all you need.

It would be nice if the OC chapter came back to life, however I might agree with Jordan, there are so many other meetings on meetup.com these days you can geek out regardless. If you want the meetings, do something positive to get it to happen, talk about something your passionate about at a meeting, or simply at the pizza party, if you know enough, they will ask you to come to the regular meeting and all is back to normal. It is the speakers that are the life of the group. If we don't have someone who can be the program chair, it works without one as BarCamp has proven.  Remember the LA meeting where the speaker canceled and Erik from Google sat in the back and gave a great IPV6 talk? We asked him to return and give another one, both were very well received. We also have 4 other speakers, although this all happened in LA where we seem to have a better attendance it might work in OC.  Perhaps the group can also have more meetings about dev related topics as the number of SAs is rather low in that meeting, it is all good, runs on UNIX. 

In any event, thanks Dave, you kept the site up for many years and it has been the glue for UUASC, the mailing list although it might be running on old hardware with some very old software at least isn't hosted by Google as I had to do with Lilax.  I also experimented with a Page and a community for LiLAX on g+, however it hasn't been used. One final tip, at the next SCALE it will be pretty easy to book 6 months of speakers, if you want to go that way. Ismet often would ask people who came to town to speak about something and your meeting place is close to an airport. Maybe if someone went to a University and found some younger members with some time? I did visit UCLA Linux at some point, but they seemed to be quite happy on campus and didn't have that much interest in another group. 

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Dave Close <da...@compata.com> wrote:

Joe Torr wrote:

>Noticed the web page isn't stating the location for tonight... will it?

Maybe. This wasn't one of the regular OC meetings, which remain on hiatus.
If we decide to switch to this sort of meeting on a regular basis, then,
yes, the web site needs to be updated. For now, it continues to report,
correctly, that we aren't having regular meetings.

We had six tonight. Dan, Todd, Ilan, Robbie, Noah, and me. Dan agreed
(not volunteered) to post an announcement of something next month.

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